Vaccines

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released an urgent alert late last week saying there’s an urgent need to increase vaccination rates.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has given Novavax approval for its updated COVID-19 vaccine. This occurred as the prevalence of a highly mutated COVID variant has tripled in the past two weeks, according...

A former director of recreation therapy can move forward with claims that the Massachusetts nursing home where she worked for 10 years wrongly terminated her over her refusal to be vaccinated against COVID-19.

Admissions have been halted at a skilled nursing facility that was part of one of the nation’s worst COVID-19 outbreaks as state officials raise major concerns about a new round of infection and deaths...

Receiving at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine before getting infected is linked to a lower risk for developing long COVID, a study published last week in The BMJ today found. 

Healthcare workers were more apt to get the flu shot than the COVID-19 vaccine this year. Hospital workers specifically, meanwhile, were less likely to get the flu shot after the pandemic rather than before...

Researchers found that getting COVID-19 and flu shots together — or just getting the high-dose or adjuvanted flu shot alone — can slightly raise the risk for strokes, according to government health...

One long-term care sector advocate on Monday likened securing COVID, RSV and flu vaccines to a survivalist book and movie series, even as the White House says it is making a push to boost coverage rates...

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